Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:56:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cat cat.1 cat.c Message-ID: <200109150356.f8F3umM21733@earth.backplane.com> References: <200109150336.f8F3Zxd38267@green.bikeshed.org>
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:> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! /
:>
:> As the remainder of the commit message says. You can also find the thread
:> in the mailing lists from about, oh, two months ago. Basically there
:> are a number of interesting things unix-domain sockets could be used
:> for that they aren't now due to lack of utility support.
:
:Which mailing-lists would that be?
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: Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! /
Hmm.... ok, I found the thread, but it looks like it wasn't
cross posted to the lists. It was between David Malone, Lyndon
Nerenberg, and myself. Basically David comitted changes to inetd
in June that allow services to sit on top of unix-domain sockets.
For example, you can run things like 'fortune' as a service. The
additions to cat.c were discussed as a complement to having that
capability so, for example, scripts could make use of the new
inetd facility. For the same reason we comitted a telnet-to-unix-domain-
socket capability in May which you can find with 'man telnet' under
-current. This just rounds-out the facility.
-Matt
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